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Carl R. Bowie Jr

Case from Anchorage, AK dated Jan 28, 2018

Victim Details

Carl R. Bowie Jr

Male

White / Caucasian

Anchorage

AK

2018-01-28

52

Carl

R. Bowie Jr

litigation

06/25/2026

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On the night of January 28, 2018, Carl R. Bowie Jr., a 52-year-old man, was caught in a burst of gunfire that rippled across Anchorage's Spenard neighborhood. Calls first poured in around 8:15 p.m. from the area of 36th Avenue and Arctic Boulevard; while officers were driving toward that scene, more frantic reports came from the 3400 block of Spenard Road. Inside a mobile home at the Penguin Trailer Court—just off Spenard near 36th—police found the 52-year-old man dead from gunshot wounds, a ...
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  • Anchorage Daily News: APD: Man found dead after reports of gunfire; suspects at large
  • APD: Homicide investigation in West Anchorage
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